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@pyro - sorry, didn't mean to be awkward.
I don't change others. They change themselves. I just provide the experience I think they need.
Not a problem Matt, not awkward at all. It's a very valid question.
At I say hopefully it's a case of 'didn't think it through' rather than 'didn't want you involved'. When useful people to have on board sometimes, but unfortunately not psychic...
Indeed...
2 groats per perch innit.
Something a bit fishy about that quote...
I don't know if the drainage problem is design related, materials, or construction issues, but I used to be a site engineer dealing with drainage contractors. They were a nightmare. Staff retention of capable guys that knew what they were doing was terrible. You might have a dozen guys on the job and if 3 of them knew what they were doing you were lucky. I know of some guys whose only pipe laying experience prior to coming to site was through watching you tube videos.
To be honest, that's how I learned how to pack my canopy. Mind you, I did then get someone who has real experience to check before I jumped it...
PFI isn't the real problem with contracting, as that's only the finance model used by Clients / Government departments to pay for infrastructure. The problem with contracting is Design & Build forms of contract that means the lowest bid wins, the contractor is in charge and there is normally an unachievable time frame set by the client. This means there isn't time / budget for a proper design & check (the designer will have got the work based on the lowest bid, so it's being designed in India) and there are no experienced engineers on site to check the work, so the contractor will get the work signed off.